Oh God, yes. I remember having my mother pull a half inch splinter out of my foot from being at the park. My sandal slid off and I ended up taking a chunk into my foot. Unpleasant.
Personally on TV programming, I understand about cable channel "bloat", commercials and prices charged, and the mini-monopolies...etc. But I don't get so worked up over it for whatever reason even knowing all that. Thats always the irony of improved technology and efficiency to me. Experts and geniuses innovate products then THEMSELVES right out of existence. Or DO they...
And then watching it every single year it came on after that. ABC for Ghostbusters, NBC for Back to the Future, 39 Gold for Breakfast Club and Up the Creek.
They keep saying "cash" is going to go away but I don't see how. It's one of the easiest ways for illegal products/activities to be bought and paid for...there are too many uses for anonymous monetary exchange.
Here's one for kids from China, due to the 1 child policy: Knowing what it's like to have an brother/sister, aunt/uncle or cousins.
And as cyber criminals become more and more advanced, the pull to use cash is getting stronger. The one off that list that hit home for me was remembering people's phone numbers. When I was in elementary and middle school, I was a human rolodex when it came to friends' phone numbers.
That's only true for the current young urban adults, who were boring during the policy. The policy isn't enforced as as strict (that's not to say it's not enforced) in the countryside. Anyways, I believe you can now have two kids if both the parents were single child. Then again this was second hand information and I never tried to make sure
I found these interesting: Finding out information from an encyclopedia. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet. A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions. One I would add: Going to the book store and buying a real book, not the online version.
I was having a somewhat similar conversation last week. Talking about 'game changers' that happened in our lifetime (last 30 years)and that our kids will never know what life was like prior. Some we came up with: 1. Computers 2. Internet (which came years and years later) 3. Sony Walkman (ie portable music players) 4. Microwave 5. Cell phone Then we got bored and didn't come up with any more. I question if the Walkman is actually a game changer but clearly notable.
- Video game, movie and book stores. Movie and book stores are obvious. But I think in the next 5-10 years all games will be downloadable, even on the main home consoles. - On the same note, physical media whatsoever (DVDs, BluRays, CDs, etc) I think at some point in the near future, houses will just have a place with a centralized system with multiple hard drives storing all their media that can be streamed to any room or TV.
That's the biggest distinction right there. It also used to be your random old movie and old school LP rental spot. And they used to archive their periodicals forever, I remember the entire back wall of the adult section at Sterling Municipal in Baytown was lined with Sports Illustrateds from the '60s, leather-bound Newsweeks from the '30s and '40s. How about going to a bookstore and seeing actual literature, rather than 10 shelves worth of Smart Investing or Guilt-Free Dieting books.
Doubt people really got "bored", per se I know your just talking in fun. More comfortable perhaps. Sometimes we overblow some technological innovations and undervalue others. Like saying they invented the radio, but then nothing past that & we've had the radio for 100 years. Though what do you really NEED past a radio, or what more CAN you actually DO past a radio? All you can really do is change the carriage and reception of the signal, the portability.
This one is huge. Literally nothing was worse than picking up the phone and hearing the voice of someone you really didn't want to talk to. I specifically remember mastering the art of crinkling a chip bag in the receiver to make it sound like static so I could have a reason to hang up on friends I didn't want to talk to.
Pay phones. Drive in's. The 3 major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) being the only Television options. Tape-delayed sporting events. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. No ESPN. MTV as a music video channel. Monday Night Football halftime highlights with Howard Cosell.
Whose "Kids" is he talking about, exactly? Would it be my kids (im 13) or some of you older guys? Because if im the "kid" i know about all 100 of these things.
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Add having to subscribe to an entire package of cable channels just to get the couple that you want. Eventually, cable will have no choice but to let us subscribe to individual channels.
